United States History Midterm REVIEW GUIDE Fall 2015
Colonies through Revolution (Chapters 1-4)
1. Which country established permanent settlements in Canada and developed fur trading?
2. Which Colony was founded for religious freedom by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
3. Which was the first colonial establishment in America in 1607?
4. What was the first representative government in America in Virginia?
5. “Lost Colony”
6. Half Way Covenant of 1662
7. Describe the Mass. Bay “City Upon a Hill”.
8. Who were the Puritans? (Beliefs)
9. What is Mercantilism?
10. What areas were a part of the Triangular Trade?
11. What was “Salutary Neglect?”
12. Who wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense?”
13. What were the Navigation Acts?
14. Where and what was the Proclamation of 1763?
15. Why were the colonists so angry about the taxes imposed on them from Great Britain?
16. John Locke’s writing of “Two Treatises of Government in 1690” most likely reflects the ideals of what movement?
17. Which battle was the turning point of the Revolutionary War?
18. The final battle of the Revolutionary War was what?
19. Where do General Washington and his army spend the long winter in 1777?
20. Who was the Marquis De Lafayette?
21. The Treaty of Paris and US Boundaries.
22. The Proclamation Line of 1763.
Constitution through President Monroe (Chapters 5and 6)
23. What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights?
24. Why did the Anti-Federalists finally agree to the ratification of the Constitution?
25. What was James Madison’s role in the creation of the Constitution?
26. What were some of the main points in George Washington’s Farwell Address from his presidency?
27. What was the FIRST domestic crisis of the US Government under the CONSTITUTION? (Think Washington’s term)
28. What was the Missouri Compromise?
29. What was the Northwest Ordinance?
30. What were some of the effects of the Erie Canal being built? (think what it did for cities along the Great Lakes)
31. Why does the U.S. declare war on Great Britain in 1812?
Nationalism, Sectionalism, Jackson, Reforms and Manifest Destiny (Chapters 7-9)
32. What was the effect of the cotton gin in American cotton production?
33. Angelina and Sarah Grimke are most notable for being with what reform group?(There are 2)
34. Which President was most associated with “Manifest Destiny?”
35. What religious group is Joseph Smith and Brigham Young most associated with?
36. Who are some of the most famous abolitionists?
37. What was the Nullification Crisis? (During Jackson’s term)
38. Who was the biggest opponent of the Tariff of 1828 and supported “States’ Rights?”
39. What acquisition did we gain after the War with Mexico?(territories and the name)
Pre-Civil War, The Civil War, and Reconstruction (Chapters 10-12)
40. Which Confederate General was killed accidently by his own men?
41. Who was Jefferson Davis?
42. Where General Grant’s siege was in 1863, also considered the Turning Point of the Western Front?
43. Which Battle gave the Union Army complete control over the Confederate rail lines and set the stage for Sherman’s March to the Sea?
44. Bleeding Sumner took place in 1856 because of what? (why did it happen)
45. What was the goal of the KKK?
46. Who were the Carpetbaggers and Scalawags?
47. What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
48. What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
49. What does “Reconstruction” mean?
50. Reconstruction Act of 1867.
51. Amendment that gave former slaves Citizenship.
52. The Freedman’s Bureau.